Includes bibliographical references (pages 278-281) and index

The Earth She Laughed / Robert Francis Johnson -- The Context for Natural Building -- The Case for Natural Building / Michael G. Smith -- The Importance of Housing Ourselves / Ianto Evans -- Natural Building and Social Justice / Robert Bolman -- Building As If the Future Matters / Ted Butchart -- Vernacular Architecture of the Desert / Jean-Louis Bourgeois -- Sustainability and the Building Codes / David Eisenberg -- Life Cycle Cost and Value of Four Houses / David A. Bainbridge -- A Case for Caring Craftsmanship / Duncan MacMaster -- Design and Planning -- Designing for Vitality / Carol Venolia -- Intuitive Design / Linda Smiley -- The Healthy House / Paula Baker-Laporte -- Responsive Design: Integrating the Spirit of Place with the Vision of Home / Susie Harrington -- Eighteen Design Principles to Make Square Feet Work Harder / Robert Gay -- Combining Natural Materials for Energy Efficiency / Catherine Wanek -- R-Value Comparison Chart -- Designing with the Sun / Susie Harrington -- Siting a Natural Building / Michael G. Smith -- The Permaculture House / Peter Bane -- Regenerative Building: An Ecological Approach / Michael G. Smith -- Ecovillages and Sustainable Communities / Joseph F. Kennedy -- Natural Building Materials and Techniques -- Natural Building Materials: An Overview / Joseph F. Kennedy -- Natural Insulation / Joseph F. Kennedy, Michael G. Smith -- Foundations for Natural Buildings / Michael G. Smith -- Rubble Trench Foundations / Rob Tom -- Earthen Floors / Athena Steen, Bill Steen -- A Tamped Road Base Floor / Frank Meyer -- Adobe Building / Paul G. McHenry -- Bamboo Construction / Darrel DeBoer -- Cob Building, Ancient and Modern / Michael G. Smith -- Compressed Earth Blocks / Wayne Nelson -- Cordwood Masonry: An Overview / Rob Roy -- Building with Earthbags / Joseph F. Kennedy -- Earthships: An Ecocentric Model / Jack Ehrhardt -- Digging In for Comfort / Kelly Hart -- Building with Hemp / Tom Woolley -- Light-Clay: An Introduction to German Clay Building Techniques / Frank Andresen -- Mechanizing Straw-Clay Production / Alfred von Bachmayr -- Paper Houses: Papercrete and Fidobe / Gordon Solberg -- Rammed Earth: From Pise to P.I.S.E. / Scott Grometer -- Stone Masonry / Michael G. Smith -- Straw Bale Building: Lessons Learned / Catherine Wanek -- Timber Framing: A Natural Building Form / Steve Chappell -- Wattle and Daub / Joseph F. Kennedy -- Roofs for Natural Building / Joseph F. Kennedy -- Green Roofs with Sod, Turf, or Straw / Paul Lacinski, Michel Bergeron -- Thatching Comes to America / Deanne Bednar -- Earth Plasters and Aliz / Carole Crews -- Working with Lime / Barbara Jones -- Natural Paints and Finishes / Joseph F. Kennedy -- Recovering from Waste: Using Recycled and Agricultural Materials / Dan Imhoff -- Building with the Sun: The Real Goods Solar Living Center / David Arkin -- From the Nile to the Rio Grande / Dick Doughty -- Elegant Solutions: The Work of Hassan Fathy / Simone Swan -- An Earthbag-Papercrete House / Kelly Hart -- Clay, Straw, and Permaculture: Natural Building at P.I.N.C. / Toby Hemenway -- The Earth Sweet Home Institute / Juliet Cuming, David Shaw -- Evolving a Village Vernacular: The Earthaven Experiment / Chuck Marsh -- Building with the Earth at Auroville / Satprem Maini -- Natural Building--A European Tradition / Catherine Wanek -- Desert Island Books -- Selected Learning Centers -- Permissions

A collection of essays that documents the natural building movement in the early twenty-first century, providing a context for natural building, discussing design and planning, describing natural building materials and techniques, and including case studies

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